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'The Last Yiddish Speaker' is truly frightening

by Aaron Krause

By AARON KRAUSE Forget ghosts and goblins. Deborah Zoe Laufer's frightening and moving drama, The Last Yiddish Speaker, centers on a real horrific scenario. Specifically, the playwright imagines that the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection attempt at the U.S. Capitol was successful. As a result, a white supremacist regime came into power. Under its rule, authorities enforce ethnic, ideological […] The post 'The Last…

SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 6:02am on November 1, 2024